Bedding options
My little boy is still in a cotbed and shows no signs of climbing out so we intend on keeping there for as long as possible!
He has a bedtime routine and is happy to get into his cotbed, and then sometimes spends the next 30-60 minutes rolling around his cot, until he eventually falls asleep. He is perfectly happy. But during that time, he takes his sleeping bag off. I’ve tried the togged sleepsuit but he takes that off aswell. So he is then just in a nappy or nappy and tshirt.
I’m getting concerned that as we enter autumn/winter, he will get cold and struggle to get to sleep.
I’m wondering if I should try him with a duvet, but currently if he has anything in his cot with him such as teddies, he just throws them out of him cot like a game, again not upset, just playing. Currently when I go to bed I put him back in his sleeping bag so he isn’t cold during the night, and luckily it doesn’t wake him up!
Has anyone been through this? I’m kind of thinking he will realise that the sleeping bag or duvet is what keeps him warm…
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My little girl now 4 loved a sleep bag! My nearly 2 year old can’t stand them! She is also in a cot bed like your little one and I just put a knitted blanket over her bottom half and she’s happy like that. Mind you I do wait till she’s fast asleep and then put the blanket over her x
Just get him a small cozy blanket he can cuddle with and he’ll either use it or you can lay it on top of him. Some kids just get too hot so putting it on them is too much and they would rather be uncovered. My daughter likes kicking off her blanket. So in the middle of the night sometimes we’ll just put it back on top you don’t need a full duvet. Just get a like throw size soft blanket.
Mine has just had the cot converted to the bed and he has a crocheted blanket I made on him at the moment, it's big enough to need to be tucked around his mattress. Otherwise he would through it. Prior to this he was just sleeping in the cot in his PJ's.
We had to convert, he was too tall for the cot rails and it was only by his good grace that he hadn't climbed and fell out xxx
When my daughter grew out of all the sleeping bags (and was going in to a bed rather than a cot) we assumed she'd just use a duvet, but to this day (a year and a half later... she's almost four!) she point blank refuses to sleep under a duvet, so we've always just popped her in a vest, fluffy fleece pjs and warm socks and she just sleeps like that and doesn't seem to get cold. Our house is quite warm so the bedroom sits at around 21 degrees.
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